M'hamed Issiakhem
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M'hamed Issiakhem (in Algerian
Algerian Arabic
Algerian Arabic is the variety or varieties of Arabic spoken in Algeria. In Algeria, as elsewhere, spoken Arabic differs from written Arabic; Algerian Arabic has a vocabulary mostly Arabic, with significant Berber substrates, and many new words and loanwords borrowed from French, Turkish and...

:Muḥand Isyaxem) is one of the founders of the modern Algeria
Algeria
Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...

n painting
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

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Biography

M'hamed Issiakhem born on in Tizi Ouzou
Tizi Ouzou
Tizi Ouzou is a city in Kabylia, Algeria, where it ranks second in population after Béjaïa. It is the capital and largest city of Tizi Ouzou Province and of Great Kabylia .-Etymology:The name comes from the Kabylian Berber Tizi n Uzezzu and is pronounced Tizuzzu, commonly...

 (Algeria
Algeria
Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...

). Since 1931 his family moved out to Relizane
Relizane
Relizane is a capital town of Relizane Province, Algeria....

 where he spent most of his childhood. In 1943 he handles a stolen, from a French military camp, grenade, which explodes. Two sisters and a nephew of him died. Hospitalized for two years, he lost his left arm. Between 1947 and 1951 he is a Student Society of Fine Arts at the School of Fine Arts of Algiers and follows the courses of miniaturiste Omar Racim. Between 1953 and 1958 he attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts
École des Beaux-Arts
École des Beaux-Arts refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The most famous is the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, now located on the left bank in Paris, across the Seine from the Louvre, in the 6th arrondissement. The school has a history spanning more than 350 years,...

 de Paris. Issiakhem in 1958 left France to Germany
West Germany
West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....

, and then to East Germany
German Democratic Republic
The German Democratic Republic , informally called East Germany by West Germany and other countries, was a socialist state established in 1949 in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, including East Berlin of the Allied-occupied capital city...

 where he have been establish until the Algerian independence.

In 1962, Issiakhem returned to Algeria, where he is the cartoonist of the daily Alger Republicain. In 1963 he is one of the founding member of the National Union of Plastic Arts, from 1964 to 1966 he was the director at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Oran
Oran
Oran is a major city on the northwestern Mediterranean coast of Algeria, and the second largest city of the country.It is the capital of the Oran Province . The city has a population of 759,645 , while the metropolitan area has a population of approximately 1,500,000, making it the second largest...

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From 1965 to 1982 he created models of the Algerian bank notes as many Algerians stamps.

He traveled to 1972 to Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

 and received in 1973 a gold medal at the International Fair of Algiers for his work on the stand of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.

From 1973 to 1978 is Issiakhem get back to caricatures. He runs in 1977 the realization of a fresco at the Algiers Airport. The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs published a brochure in Algiers which Kateb Yacine
Kateb Yacine
Kateb Yacine was an Algerian writer notable for his novels and plays, both in French and Algerian Arabic dialect, and his advocacy of the Algerian Berber cause.-Biography:...

 wrote the preface under the titleIssiakhem's lynx Eyes and Americans, thirty-five years of hell of a painter. Issiakhem in 1978 spent some months in Moscow
Moscow
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 and received in 1980 the first Golden Lion of Rome
Rome
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, of the UNESCO
UNESCO
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for African Art. He died on following a long illness.

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